{"id":70869,"date":"2026-02-04T17:16:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=70869"},"modified":"2026-02-04T17:16:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:16:39","slug":"michael-saylor-loses-47-billion-unrealized-profit-as-bitcoin-dumps-below-strategys-cost-basis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=70869","title":{"rendered":"Michael Saylor Loses $47 Billion Unrealized Profit As Bitcoin Dumps Below Strategy&#8217;s Cost Basis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Strategy<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MSTR\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"MSTR\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MSTR\">MSTR<\/a>) is now $630 million underwater on its <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) holdings, wiping out $47 billion in unrealized profits from just four months ago as Bitcoin plunged below the company\u2019s $76,037 average cost basis.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Profit Wipeout<\/h3>\n<p>Bitcoin fell 15% in the first four days of February, pushing Strategy\u2019s position underwater for the first time since the company began accumulating in August 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The company is down on its total Bitcoin holdings as long as the price stays below $76,000, despite BTC still being up 550% since <strong>Michael Saylor\u2019s<\/strong> first purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy purchased heavily near Bitcoin\u2019s October peak, leaving the company exposed when prices collapsed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saylor <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/saylor\/status\/2018680962784145871\">posted<\/a> \u201cThe Rules of Bitcoin: 1. Buy Bitcoin 2. Don\u2019t Sell the Bitcoin\u201d on Tuesday, doubling down on his strategy despite the massive profit wipeout.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Peter Schiff\u2019s Attack<\/h3>\n<p>Gold bug <strong>Peter Schiff<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeterSchiff\/status\/2018945280675102896\">argued<\/a> Strategy\u2019s buying drove Bitcoin\u2019s 550% rise, but now that the company can\u2019t keep buying &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50383828\/michael-saylor-loses-47-billion-unrealized-profit-as-bitcoin-dumps-below-strategys-cost-bas?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Michael\" saylor loses billion unrealized profit as bitcoin dumps below strategy cost basis>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) is now $630 million underwater on its Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) holdings, wiping out $47 billion in unrealized profits from just four months ago as Bitcoin plunged below the company\u2019s $76,037 average cost basis. The Profit Wipeout Bitcoin fell 15% in the first four days of February, pushing Strategy\u2019s position underwater for the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-70869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}